Empowering Florida Communities with LID+GSI

2024 Florida Planning Conference

Agenda

Introduction to LID+GSI Implementation

Michelle “Mo” Morrison

Planner

East Central Florida Regional Planning Council

LID+GSI Code Audit Spreadsheet Tool (CAST)

Eban Bean, Ph.D., P.E.

Associate Professor & Extension Specialist

UF/IFAS Extension Program for Resource Efficient Communities

LID+GSI Ordinance Recommendations

Jerry Murphy, JD, AICP, CFM

Faculty Consultant

UF/IFAS Extension Program for Resource Efficient Communities

State Specialized Program Agent (SSPA) – Flood Resilient Communities

Agenda

LID+GSI Ordinance Implementation: Are we there yet?

Ginger Adair

Environmental Management Director

Volusia County

Sustainable Floridians

M. Jennison Kipp

Resource Economist

UF/IFAS Extension Program for Resource Efficient Communities

Questions & Answers

FDEO Grant

▪ Community Planning Technical Assistance Grant, Ch 163.3168, F.S.

Help communities find creative solutions to foster vibrant, healthy communities, while protecting the functions of important state resources and facilities

▪ Advance resilient, nature-based stormwater strategies

▪ Consider mechanisms, incentives, and processes to incorporate LID in Volusia County site planning and stormwater management

▪ Share outcomes throughout East Central Florida region and beyond

Intro to LID+GSI Community Scoping and Code Audit Tool, MRC LID Conference (Oct. 2022), Eban Bean

LID+GSI Implementation: Commercial

Grove Roots Brewing Co. (Winter Haven, FL)

▪ Infill, redevelopment

▪ Reduced and disconnected a previously 100% impervious area from the City’s piped stormwater conveyance system

▪ Infiltrates ~100% stormwater on site

▪ Integrated system of roof gutters/downspouts, infiltration basins, parking areas graded to flow into grassed swales, open areas, and trees

▪ Parking lot bioswales

▪ Mechanical reworking of compacted soil

LID+GSI Implementation: Commercial

Photo Source: Sarasota County Government (https://www.sarasota.wateratlas.usf.edu/lid/#rain-gardens

(Sarasota, FL) ▪ Rain gardens capture roof runoff ▪ Pervious pavers in driveway and parking lot

▪ More of site for restaurant & parking, avoided need for retention pond

LID+GSI Implementation : Multi Family

Tupelo Vue (Winter Haven, FL)

▪ 5-story apartment complex

▪ Infill, redevelopment

▪ Infiltrate ~100% stormwater on site

▪ Integrated system of roof gutters/downspouts, infiltration basins/ponds, grassed bioswales and open areas, and trees

▪ Drainage and biological capacity of soils restored through mechanical reworking of soils and soil amendments using native topsoil

▪ Redevelopment included removal of all existing impervious areas (structures and pavement)

▪ Under-building parking reduced impervious area by 50%

▪ LID practices located within routinely maintained landscaped areas

Source: Winter Haven From Gray to Green

Source: https://gsiphotosflorida.org/photo/stormwater-drainage-at-el-prado-stormwater-garden/ The Nature Conservancy All Rights Photo credit: Roberto Gonzalez

El Prado Stormwater Garden (Tampa, FL)

▪ SWFWMD Cost-Share Funding Project

▪ Created to address stormwater flooding in residential areas

▪ Amended soils, bioretention, gravel pathway & storage areas, native vegetation

LID+GSI Implementation: Green Roofs

Beach Park Restroom

Source: Sarasota County Government

Sarasota County: Municipal & Commercial

▪ Restroom – reduce runoff, cooling for restroom with no AC, wildlife habitat, native landscaping

▪ Bar & Grill – funded through Sarasota Bay Estuary Program grant, FFL, cisterns capture excess rainwater used for irrigation and pressure washing building

Reducing Landscaping Impacts

The Villages (Sumter County) Source: UF/IFAS

O’Leary’s Tiki Bar & Grill in Bayfront Park Caspersen

Photo

LID+GSI Implementation: Municipal

Cape Canaveral: Veterans Memorial Park Smart Rain Garden

▪ NSF CIVIC Innovation Challenge Grant ($1M)

▪ Partners: City of Cape Canaveral, Stetson University, MRC, SJRWMD, ECFRPC, Riverside Conservancy, Kimley-Horn, Ferguson, Florida

SeaGrant, IRL NEP, Embry-Riddle, City of Cocoa Beach, Brevard Zoo

▪ Sensors measure runoff volume, nutrient pollution counts, local weather

▪ Retrofit: increase retention capacity 30% to 144K gal

▪ Showcase LID benefits: improve water quality, protect Banana River Lagoon, reduce flooding, increase biodiversity, reduce heat island effect

Photo Source: City of Cape Canaveral

LID+GSI Implementation: Institutional

Source: https://gsiphotosflorida.org/project/stetson-aquatic-center/ The Nature Conservancy All Rights Photo credit: Tyler Jones

Sandra Stetson Aquatic Center (Deland, FL)

▪ Stetson Institute for Water & Environmental Resilience

▪ GSI Demonstration project

▪ Biofiltration, rain garden, floating wetland system/beemat, native vegetation

LID Required

Doral (LID Requirements)

New buildings and redevelopment sites shall incorporate the following low impact development (LID) practices into project design, site and building plans…

Doral: ARTICLE XVI. - LOW IMPACT DEVELOPMENT PRACTICES

Developers shall implement the following non-structural LID practices to the maximum extent practical

Developers shall implement a minimum of two structural LID practices from the following list, where one meets the water quantity requirement and the other meets the water quality requirement, per Section 11.0 of the 2021 LID Master Plan Update and the SFWMD ERP Applicant's Handbook Volume II.

Maintenance is required to preserve the efficacy of the implemented LID practice(s).

Doral (LID Incentives)

To encourage developers to design site plans using more than the minimum required LID practices, the City may offer the following incentives: Expedited review of permits, Implementation of open space credit, Reduced application fee, Award recognition program

Reducing Landscaping Impacts

The Villages (Sumter County) Source: UF/IFAS

LID+GSI Encouraged/Incentivized

Incentives include:

▪ Technical assistance for LID practices

▪ Plan review fees waived

▪ Permitting/site development credits

▪ Process expedited

▪ Additional density (height, lot coverage)

▪ Setback reduction

▪ Parking reduction

▪ Stormwater fee credit (up to 52%) to non-SFH property owners to operate and maintain onsite detention or retention stormwater management systems

▪ Stormwater fee credit (up to 50%) to non-residential property owners who reduce water pollution by implementing LID and GSI practices

▪ Rebates for Florida-Friendly landscaping, irrigation, rain gardens, and rain barrels

▪ Stormwater on-site mitigation loan program to prevent or reduce future interior flooding for residents

Reducing Landscaping Impacts

The Villages (Sumter County) Source: UF/IFAS

El Prado Stormwater Garden (Tampa, FL)

LID Ordinance (2021): Incentivized

LID Technical Manuals: City

LID Technical Manuals: County

LID vs. GSI: Development Process

City or County Level:

Codes & Ordinances, Comprehensive Plans, & Zoning

FDEP & WMDs:

TMDL/BMAP, MS4, ERP Programs

Avoidance (LID)

• Map natural infrastructure

• Preserve open spaces, natural areas, trees and native soils

• Retain natural hydrologic and topographic features in site plan

Minimization (LID)

• Limit and disconnect impervious surfaces

• Mimic and maximize predevelopment hydrologic processes

• Integrate practices that provide co-benefits and multifunctional areas

Mitigation (GSI)

• Implement runoff source control measures

• Employ natural processes to treat and retain stormwater

• Provide treatment and attenuation in multiple areas across the site

Provide minimum stormwater treatment “performance” criteria – no longer “technology based” or “presumptive”.

ERP Stormwater Rule Updates Overview

Increase overall treatment and removal of nutrients (TP and TN)

Ensures consistent application of net improvement performance standards.

Establish updated stormwater best management practices that more accurately reflect latest scientific information on their performance.

Strengthens requirements for operation and maintenance of stormwater systems.

Minimum Parking Requirements

• Commercial and residential codes

• Directly/indirectly increases impervious parking areas

• Seldomly used spaces

• Pervious parking

Use of Traffic Islands: Disconnect Impervious

Curb and gutter requirements indirectly prohibit swales.

Code Audit Tool

• Based on:

• WI Sea Grant Tool

• Center for Watershed Protection Tool

• Adapted to Florida’s Karst and Coastal Areas

• Partnership between UF IFAS. TNC Florida, and Eric Livingston

• Identify explicit & implicit restrictions or barriers to LID+GSI

• Coordinated & objective review of codes

• Identify weak areas of code that can be addressed currently or when opportunity arises

CAST Introduction

• Code Audit Spreadsheet Tool (CAST)

• Overall sections:

 Comprehensive Plan

 Protecting Nature

 Stormwater and Water Quality

 The Built Environment

Code Audit Spreadsheet Tool

Code Audit Spreadsheet Tool (CAST)

4 Practice is clearly described and approved or is allowed with design approval.

3 Practice is encouraged, but some ambiguity or potential conflict exists.

2 Practice is mentioned, but without standards or guidance for use.

1 Code is silent or significant limits exist, but practice could possibly be used.

0 Practice is prohibited or very unlikely to be approved.

Where feasible, parking lot islands and perimeter landscaped areas shall be designed and installed to function as stormwater management areas, following design standards for bioretention found in the Stormwater Design Manual. If not feasible, native plants, suitable for the site shall be used.

Parking lot islands and perimeter landscaped areas are encouraged to be designed as part of the site’s stormwater management system, based on bioretention standards in the Stormwater Design Manual. Trees must be planted at a maximum interval of 20 feet.

Landscaped areas in parking lot perimeters and islands may be designed and used as stormwater bioretention areas.

Landscaping in parking lot islands and perimeters must achieve a minimum of 75% cover within two years of planting.

Parking lot perimeters shall be graded into a berm with a minimum slope of 2:1, covered with landscaping that will form a dense evergreen screen within tow years of planting.

Administrative

• About

• Definitions

• Codes Review Log

• Contact Information

• Scoring Instructions

• Score Summary

Local Government Planning and Policy

• Comprehensive Plan

• Zoning

Protecting Nature

• Natural Resources Protection and Management

• Coastal Areas

• Trees

• Sensitive Groundwater Areas

Stormwater and Water Quality

• Stormwater Management

• Pollutant Reduction

The Built Environment

• Site Plan Review

• Buildings & Landscape

• Streets

• Parking

• Permeable

• Construction

• Subdivisions & Greenfield

• Education and Demonstration

Code Audit: Scoring Examples

M7. Is shared parking allowed for multiple businesses or sites with different peak usage times?

Tips

Purpose: Reduce number of onsite parking spaces

Facilities in close proximity to each other with different peak usage times, e.g., stores, restaurants, churches, and recreation areas, are good candidates to share parking. Physical access may be needed at multiple locations, and a legal agreement is necessary. Maintenance responsibilities must be addressed.

Code References

Sec. 407.18. - Parking reductions or increases.

Article 40 chapter 407 Sec. 407.68.Transit supportive area design standards. (2)Parking spaces may be pooled and utilized anywhere within the development.

Notes, Ideas and Strategies Score

Code does not specifically address "Peak usage times" but it does consider shared parking as a means of sufficient documentation for a decrease in off street parking spaces

Consider providing guidance for the documentation including this approach. 2

Code Audit Process:

Community Scoping Exercise

• Assess GSI in the community and local acceptance of GSI, identify local natural resources, identify water quality and stormwater challenges and solutions

• ID specific code sections or topics for the audit

Code Audit Spreadsheet Tool

• Adapt CAST to full or partial audit

• Work through questions, finding & referencing code locations

• Record comments and score questions

• Identify weak areas of code

After the Audit

• Prioritize code amendments for local needs

• Draft suggested code revisions (Part 2 in development)

• Evaluate and address financial concerns

• Develop LID+GSI capacity (e.g., construction, inspection & preventative maintenance knowledge & procedures)

Does code require a conservation and restoration strategy that identifies and protects natural areas, prioritizing those providing stormwater management functions?

Gemini: 281 Words

Copilot: 265 Words

Claude: 175 Words

ChatGPT: 67 Words

Sec. 30-8.2. - General environmental performance standards.

Sec. 30-8.19. - Surface waters and wetlands review.

Sec. 30-8.20. - General requirements and procedures.

Sec. 30-8.21. - Avoiding loss or degradation of wetlands.

Sec. 30-8.2. - General environmental performance standards.

Sec. 30-8.13. - Regulation of natural and archaeological resources

Sec. 30-8.20. - General requirements and procedures.

Sec. 30-8.21. - Avoiding loss or degradation of wetlands.

Sec. 30-8.37. - Tanks.

(Incorrectly referenced, labeled “Natural areas protection strategy” in response)

AI for Auditing Codes

UF/IFAS Program for Resource Efficient Communities

State Specialized Program Agent (SSPA) – Flood Resilient Communities

murphyge@ufl.edu

LID Ordinance Recommendations

Intent and Purposes. Applicability.

Environmental Site Design (ESD).

Site Design Strategies.

Pollutant Removal.

Channel Protection Flow.

Conveyance Flow.

Flood Protection.

High Density Residential and Non-Residential Redevelopment Projects.

Land Uses with High Pollutant Loads.

Implementing and Integrating GSI + LID Strategies in Development.

Waiver of GSI + LID Requirements.

Environmental Site Design (ESD)

LID Design Process

(a) Base Map. Qualified professionals identify, evaluate, and delineate natural resources on a boundary survey.

(b) Additional documentation. Soils; sub-watershed basin boundaries; generalized vegetative types; significant field-located trees that warrant protection from development; 20% slopes.

Environmental Site Design (ESD)

Apply these strategies during the ESD process:

(a) Road Design; (b) Driveway Layouts; and (c) Lot Design.

Pollutant Removal

(a) The Guidebook provides formulae to calculate pollutant loads.

(b) Procedure to calculate pollutant loads and the effectiveness of stormwater treatment systems—Pre-Development Conditions.

(c) Procedure to calculate pollutant loads and the effectiveness of stormwater treatment systems—Post-Development Conditions.

Other Ordinance Recommendations

Channel Protection Flow

Conveyance Flow

Flood Protection

High Density Residential and Non-Residential Redevelopment

Projects

Land Uses with High Pollutant Loads

Implementing and Integrating GSI + LID Strategies in Development

Waiver of GSI + LID Requirements

10 Steps to Effective Incentives Other

Incentives: Objectives & Audience

1. Determine Objectives – Set goals and measures

Here we want to improve stormwater management and water quality through effective implementation of GSI + LID in new development and redevelopment projects; and wherever else possible

2. Analyze the Audience – Who can impact the objectives?

• Developers; Engineers; Home Builders; Property Owners; Public

• Regulators; Enforcers; Officials; Public

Incentives: Fact Finding

3. Fact Finding & Audience Involvement (ENRAC, etc.)

Here: What do we do to improve stormwater management and water quality through effective implementation of GSI + LID in new projects; and where ever else possible

Recommendation:

• Ordinance requirements for new development and redevelopment projects, e.g. residential subdivisions; large multi-family and nonresidential projects.

• Incentives for existing development.

4. Create Rules Structure and Develop Budget – rules of the program; fixed and variable costs

Here: Available resources to administer the program or need for additional resources; available processes to administer the program or need for new procedures; program management.

5. Select Awards – appeal; budget; match

What incentives will the Audience value? bonus density (caps), reduced dimensional regulations, fee waivers; property tax abatements, priority permit processing; compliance grants; etc.

Incentives: Outreach, Tracking, & Awards

6. Communicate the Program – Appropriate media to expand audience

Outreach to the public – possible parallel with the educational efforts we use to promote the local NFIP regulations to capture credits for the Community Rating System

7. Operations – Track results with regular progress updates

Again, a function of budget, capacity, and resources

8. Fulfill the Awards – more immediate = better!

9. Evaluate & Measure – Objective accomplished? Any outside factors?

This is the back end of steps 4 (Rules) and 7 (Tracking). Are we making progress toward our objective(s)?

10. Celebrate Success! – Reward achievers; communicate results; annual dinner; awards; public recognition.

This is probably the most public-facing aspect and provides additional incentives to participate whether through regulatory (LDRs) or voluntary compliance.

Low Impact Development Ordinance

Early Low Impact Development (LID) efforts in Volusia County

• Series of LID workshops 2021

• April – County Council Workshop: Growth and Resource Management and Permitting

• June – County Council Workshop, Creation of Environment and Natural Resources Advisory Committee (ENRAC) -LID is a top priority

• August – County Council accepted DEO Grant and approved Budget Resolution

• October – Grant signed by County Council 2023

• February – Regional Roundtable

Discussion

• April – ENRAC Meeting to discuss DEO

Grant progress on LID Guidebook and Ordinance Recommendations with grant project team.

• April – Green Stormwater

Infrastructure Design Workshop

• April – Green Stormwater

Infrastructure Maintenance Training

• May – ENRAC Meeting to discuss DEO

Grant progress on LID Guidebook and Ordinance Recommendations with grant project team.

The DEO grant project

 Department of Economic Opportunity grant

 $75,000 – completion June 2023

 Develop ordinance recommendations for LID

◼ Best equitable practices to incorporate LID into land development codes

◼ Ordinance recommendations for County Council to consider to advance resilient nature-based stormwater solutions LID Implementation guidebook

◼ Aid in implementing LID regionally

After the grant project . . .

ENRAC meeting June 7, 2023

 ENRAC Recommendation: “The County Council direct staff to employ the LID+GSI Code Audit Tool to evaluate our Land Development Code (LDC) for existing ordinances that employ LID tools, barriers or conflicts to LID, and opportunities to enhance the use of LID and GSI. This is with the goal of revising the LDC to facilitate a hybrid use of LID and GSI across the county to mitigate flooding and nutrient pollution.“

Using the LID hierarchy of avoid, minimize, mitigate

The more elements you implement, the more incentives you receive

LID Implementation Options and Direction

All voluntar y Voluntary with incentives

County Council unanimously directed staff to utilize the LID and GSI Code Audit Tool to evaluate the Land Development Regulations and develop a draft ordinance that encompasses voluntary LID and GSI practices.

UF LID + GSI Code Audit Tool

• About

• Definitions

• Codes Review Log

• Contact Information

• Scoring Instructions

• Score Summary Local Government Planning and Policy

• Comprehensive Plan

• Zoning Protecting Nature • Natural Resources Protection and Management • Coastal Areas • Trees • Sensitive Groundwater Areas

Practice is clearly described and approved or is allowed with design approval.

Practice is encouraged, but some ambiguity or potential conflict exists.

Practice is mentioned, but without standards or guidance for use.

Landscaped areas in parking lot perimeters and islands may be designed and used as stormwater bioretention areas. 1

Code is silent or significant limits exist, but practice could possibly be used.

Landscaping in parking lot islands and perimeters must achieve a minimum of 75% cover within two years of planting.

Parking lot perimeters shall be graded into a berm with a minimum slope of 2:1, covered with landscaping that will form a dense evergreen screen within tow years of planting. Administrative

and Water Quality • Stormwater Management

• Pollutant Reduction

• Buildings & Landscape

• Permeable

• Construction

• Subdivisions & Greenfield •

Practice is prohibited or very unlikely to be approved.

Code Audit Tool Implementation

❑ Hired a student from Stetson University

❑ Assembled core team from Environmental Management (4 staff members)

❑ Identified subject matter experts as the LID Review Team (19 staff members from 7 different county divisions including Planning, Zoning, Building, Land Development, Development Engineering, Traffic, Road and Bridge, Fire Rescue)

❑ Held a kick-off meeting

❑ LID Review Team conducted the audit tool section by section – typical 3-week work period

❑ Core team reviewed each section independently

❑ Compiled all LID Review Team responses

❑ Met with LID Review Team team to review and discuss differences (often 2 meetings)

❑ Compiled all audit results and distribute to LID team for final review

The Process:

Subject Matter

Experts + EMD LID

Team Member

Review LID Audit Tool Section

EMD LID Team Meeting

Compile all Results

County LID Team LID

Audit Tool Section Review

EMD LID Team cleanup of LID Audit Tool Section

County LID Team Meeting (3 hours)

Tentative Backup County LID Team Meeting (3 hours)

The results

Structure of proposed LID implementation

 Comprehensive Plan changes to encourage LID practices

 Zoning Ordinance and Land Development Code changes to set the standards

 Development of a LID Guidance Manual with the details on best management practices (BMPs), incentives, and maintenance requirements

 A matrix of the BMP’s and incentives

Proposed Comp Plan changes

Adding goals, objectives, and policies to the Future Land Use Element, under our Smart Growth Initiative.

GOAL:

SG 2: To provide alternative development design standards to assist with stormwater management and water quality within Volusia County.

OBJECTIVE:

SG 2.1: To allow implementation of low impact development and green stormwater infrastructure techniques within the development of sites.

Proposed Comp Plan changes

POLICIES:

SG 2.1.1:Developers are encouraged to use low impact development and green stormwater infrastructure techniques within all land use designations.

SG 2.1.2:Developers utilizing low impact development techniques are encouraged to use innovative land planning and development techniques such as conservation subdivisions, rural clusters, and Waterwise Development.

SG 2.1.3:The land development regulations and any accompanying manual shall set forth a flexible process for authorizing subdivisions and site plans implementing low impact development techniques with innovative designs, incentives, and standards. Incentives may include, but are not limited to, increased density and/or building height, and reduced building setbacks.

SG 2.1.4:Lots shall be arranged in a compact fashion and are authorized and encouraged to be smaller than typically allowed in the zoning classification in urban residential land use classifications.

Proposed Zoning Code changes

Section 72-310. – Low Impact Development.

The Low Impact Development Guidance Manual contains incentives including, but not limited to, additional density and height, and reduced setbacks. The identified incentives within the Manual are permitted by right and do not require a public hearing or waiver by the Zoning Enforcement Official to implement. Any deviation of the Zoning Ordinance provisions beyond that expressly permitted by the Manual must be processed as a variance pursuant to division 10 of this article or as a waiver by the Zoning Enforcement Official, as ordinarily required.

Proposed Land Development Code changes

Purpose and Applicability.

The purpose of this division is to establish procedures to voluntarily implement low impact development (LID) and green stormwater infrastructure (GSI) practices within any zoning classification in unincorporated Volusia County. Cluster subdivisions and density bonuses shall not occur within rural land use designations. The following regulations set forth a flexible process for authorizing low impact development techniques. Standards.

(a) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter, applications for low impact development subdivisions or final site plans meeting the criteria in this section may be processed as provided in this division. Criteria not specifically addressed within this Division or the Low Impact Development Guidance Manual (Manual), must comply with existing regulations set forth in the Comprehensive Plan, Chapter 50, and Chapter 72 Code of Ordinances. In no instance shall LID best management practices or incentives override the Airport Protection Overlay Zone, Division 7 Flood Hazard Management, or environmental provisions of this Chapter.

a. The Manual shall be the guiding document for best management practices, technical requirements, incentives, and maintenance requirements.

Proposed Land Development Code changes

Section 72-1169. - Low Impact Development Site Plan.

(a) Approval required. Granting of a development order is required prior to issuance of a development permit allowing the commencement of site construction of any development.

(b) Procedures. A final site plan application containing LID elements shall be filed and processed pursuant to division 3 of article III, Land Development Regulations.

(c) Required submittals. A final site plan application shall include the items listed within division 3 of article III, Land Development Regulations, and any additional documents listed within the Manual.

a. The Environmental Division is authorized to waive or modify the Environmental Impact Assessment requirements listed within the Manual.

LID Guidance Manual

Chapters: 1. Introduction 2. Technical Requirements and Incentives 3. Evaluating Your Site and Planning for LID

Catalog of LID Best Management Practices

Operation and Maintenance of LID Practices

Site Design BMPs (LID)

 Maintain natural topography

 Preserve floodplain

 Retain tree canopy and natural vegetation

 Retain riparian or vegetated buffers

 Cluster and Conservation subdivisions

 Common open space

 Corridor Protection

 Native landscape, fertilizers and irrigation

 Habitat restoration or habitat management

 Pavement width reduction

 Curb elimination and alternative designs

 Alternative surface materials

 Concentrated parking islands

 Minimize building footprint

 Minimize total impervious area  Minimize directly connected impervious area

Pervious pathway surface

Photo Source: City of Cape Canaveral

Stormwater BMPs (GSI)

 Stormwater treatment park

 Retention ponds

 Detention ponds

 Floating wetland mats

 Vegetated swale or bioswale

 Rain gardens

 Underground retention and detention

 Infiltration and exfiltration trenches

 Biosorption activated media (BAM)

 Tree box filters and rainfall interceptor trees

 Rainwater harvesting

 Vegetated roofs and walls

A minimum of 2 are required

 Flexible lot sizes

 Flexible building setbacks

 Additional density or intensity

 Increased maximum building height

 Increased lot coverage

 BMP permitted within landscape buffer and setbacks

 BMP permitted within landscape islands and row ends

 BMP credited as landscaping

 BMP credited as open space

 Off-street parking flexibility

 Reduction in tree replacement requirements

 Reduced building permit, or land development fees

 Allow for neighborhood commercial uses

BMP Table

LID Matrix

Next Steps

Review by ENRAC Committee September 4

Public comment period  Final review and edits  Planning and Land Development Review Commission

County Council for adoption

Sustainable Floridians & LID+GSI Opportunities: The Power of a Conversation

Florida Planning Conference | 6 Sept 2024

M. Jennison Kipp

Sustainable Communities State Specialized Program Agent

UF/IFAS Program for Resource Efficient Communities

https://1000friendsofflorida.org/florida2070

Florida’s Population 2010 V. 2070

Projected 15 million new residents by 2070

Florida’s Water Supply & Quality

Projected 54% increase in water demand by 2070

Program for Resource Efficient Communities (PREC)

We promote the adoption of best design, construction, and management practices that measurably reduce energy and water consumption and environmental degradation in Florida’s masterplanned residential community developments.

Project Opportunity & Evolution: Restoration

• 2006: Proposed project in Volusia County

• 5,187-acre master plan entitled to have 8,500 dwelling units

• Multi-year permitting process and evolution of project design

• 2009: Restoration was fully entitled based on its re-design to create a mixed-use, transit-oriented community with 3.5 million ft2 of commercial space